Committee Structure

Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the Pango committees.

Pango Committee Functions

• Maintain, uphold, and amend the rules of the Pango nomenclature system.

• Consider suggested rule changes, from the LDC or elsewhere.

• Ratify or reject rule changes and explain those decisions.

• Publish the Pango system rules and rule changes.

• Publish the unreserved minutes of PC meetings.

• Consider lineage designations proposed by the LDC.

• Consider and publish the lineage designations.

• Receive enquiries about the the Pango system.

• Provide resources to explain how the system works.

Lineage Designation Committee Functions

• Analyse available SARS-CoV-2 genome data and develop lineage designations.

• Communicate proposed designations to the PC.

• Consider requests for new lineages or other changes.

• Propose new rules or rule changes to the PC as appropriate.

• Maintain computational tools for the classification of new genome sequences.

• Respond to requests for information from the PC.

Committee Interaction


              graph TD
                  A[Genomic Epidemiology Community] -->|Advice & Experience| C{Pango Committee};
                  B(Lineage Designation Committee) -->|Proposed Designations| C;
                  C -->|Ratified Designations| A;
                  C -->|Rules & Guidance| B;
                  D[Observer Members] -.->|Communication Channel| C;